1. PHP License v.3.0, as archived at http://opensource.org/licenses/PHP-3.0, is an OSI Approved[sm] licence. A housekeeping note, in case it's of interest: Recent PHP 4 and PHP 5 releases have been under PHP License v3.01. A careful comparison finds that the difference between 3.0 and 3.01 consists exactly of an update of the URL http://www.php.net/ to http://www.php.net/software/ -- and no other difference.
2. I lurk on the Debian Project's debian-legal mailing list (for my sins ;-> ). Last August, Ian Jackson of Debian, speaking for a group of Debian developers including the ftpmasters, examined three peculiarities of PHP License 3.01 (carried forward verbatim from 3.0) and will be asking SFLC for advice on those peculiarities when the query has been finished and vetted by the Debian ftpmasters. This probably has no bearing on OSD compliance, but may be of interest anyway. Draft 4 (latest) of Jackson's queries are here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2014/08/msg00062.html All three of the issues will be familiar here. The first is that the licence is worded in a manner specific to the PHP product, i.e., not templated. Likewise (issue #2), because of the narrow focus of the drafters on the PHP product, the licence disclaimer is wrongly worded when the PHP Licence is used for any other codebase (including third-party add-ons to PHP). Last (issue #3), Debian points out practical problems and unintended side-effects that are likely being caused by PHP Group's rather frenetic attempt to ban (via licence terms 3 and 4) unauthorised use of the term 'PHP' by third parties. (Jackson states in passing that PHP is not a trademark, which is almost certainly a false statement on account of common-law trademark.) I've seen no further comment since August, but the ftpmasters have probably been preoccupied by the release process for Debian 'jessie'. -- Cheers, Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum Rick Moen qui locutionem tuam corrigant. [email protected] McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
